There’s a new King of the paddock, with global leader in animal management, Datamars Livestock, launching a 46 Joule Pel electric fence energizer. The PEL 46000W Mains Energizer offers a powerful alternative to the PEL 836RS/R models, for farmers that want a great performing energizer with an intuitive interface. With Bluetooth and Wi-Fi compatibility, the […]
Jun
Arwel Jones is a third-generation farmer who helps run the family farm at Blaen Cwm, Cwmpenanner near Cerrigydrudion alongside his father, as well as doing some shepherding work on a nearby farm. Keeping a flock of cross Romney and Welsh for the past eleven or twelve years, they have also introduced the Innovis’ breed Aberfield […]
May
Datamars Livestock, featuring Pel Electric Fencing are running a weeklong series entitled Get Going with Grazing to help people who want to start doing rotational grazing to improve their grass quality, soil structure and grazing potential on their farm. Starting off using Electric Fencing to improve your grazing can be very simple. All you need […]
With the good grass growth conditions this year in stark contrast to the drought of last summer, many farmers have the issue of too much grass. So how do we utilise this and ensure good quality through the winter and reduce winter kill before next spring? The obvious solution is to bale excess grass – […]
Sep
Morgan Owen’s grandfather Iolo Owen, in the mid ’60s looked into an alternative breed of ewe to the Welsh Mountain he brought in from various sources, thus crossing the Wiltshire Horn with Nelson Welsh creating the Easy Care ewe. Having been successful, they have built up the flock to 2700 ewes- all of which are […]
Breeding Management
The job of tagging large numbers becomes half the task and saves valuable time and money.
May
Case Study: Brothers Abner and Danial Hughes, farm side by side at Brychyni in Llangybi and have been using the TagFaster system since 2013. In this time, they have seen the tags and applicator improve significantly and are very happy with the outcome of the improvements it has today! They tag the lambs around […]
Jun
Builder Ally Baird admits to being a bit of a perfectionist and since he first got his eye on Zwartble sheep he has applied these principles to establishing his flock. Ally’s first introduction to farming was helping out with the flock run by his wife Moyra’s father near Dunblane in Perthshire. “I am a builder […]
We, at Roxan, were very sad to hear of the news of the sudden passing of Dave Scott. He and his wife Muriel ran Tagmaster in Hawick in the Scottish Borders for many years before they retired. They made many friends supplying tags and electronic reading, weighing and sorting equipment throughout mainly Scotland but all […]
May
Our TagFaster tags now come in a handy resealable zip seal bag to keep your tags (or sandwiches) clean and dry!
Datamars to acquire the farm resource management and milk meter businesses of Tru-Test. Datamars SA signs conditional acquisition agreement with Auckland-based Tru-Test Group for the purchase of the largest portion of the Tru-Test business. The conditional acquisition involves the R&D, manufacturing, sales, marketing and corporate functions of Tru-Test’s Retail Solutions (primarily Electric Fence, Weighing and […]
Apr
KILLETER, Co Tyrone dairy farmer James Hemphill returned home last May from a six-month working holiday in New Zealand with renewed confidence in the future of grass-based milk production. “Not every idea that works in NZ suits Northern Ireland, but the way in which Kiwis utilize grass to produce milk at a decent margin has […]